Syrian President Assad with Russian President Putin
Russian Parliament Gloats As Putin Checkmates Obama Over Syria -- Breitbart
Monday morning, Secretary of State John Kerry made what an administration official called a "major goof" with a never-going-to-happen hypothetical that suggested Syria could avoid American airstrikes by surrendering their chemical weapons. Even the State Department walked Kerry's statement back. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov immediately seized upon Kerry's flub, and now a member of the Russian parliament is gloating over Putin's checkmate of Obama.
Watching one administration bungle after another unfurl, Alexi Pushkov , the chairman of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, is publicly mocking Obama. Via Twitter, Pushkov wrote that this mess “knocks the ground out from under Obama’s plans for a military strike.”
Kerry's flub played right into the Russians hands; and by breaking weak, stepping back from his own red line, and embracing Kerry's hypothetical proposal during a round-robin of network interviews Monday night, President Obama chose to repeat Kerry's mistake. Russian President Vladmir Putin now looks like the world's peacemaker and Syria can dig in and drag this out forever as the West tries to figure out how to secure and destroy a thousand tons of chemicals weapons without putting "boots on the ground" in the middle of a civil war.
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My Comment: Regular readers of this blog know that my nationality is Russian .... and I follow Russian news and commentary daily. Watching Russian and U.S. news yesterday and this morning made me feel that I was living in the twilight zone. The U.S. news media was praising President Obama on his evolving strategy on Syria .... i.e. forcing the Syrians to "give-up" their chemical weapons" ..... while the Russian press and their commentators were literally laughing at the White House and their ever-shifting and disorganized Syrian policy. This RT commentary best sums up this Russian mindset.
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